From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 6 07:51:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA24714 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from bert.club-web.com (bert.club-web.com [207.176.196.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA24696 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@club-web.com) Received: from club-web.com (ernie.club-web.com [207.176.196.12]) by bert.club-web.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA14616; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:55:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34B255C6.F4160FE8@club-web.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 11:03:18 -0500 From: Mark Segal Organization: Club-Web Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Pielorz , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ifconfig & 2nd IP address - weird... References: <34B15E1A.EE0854C6@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Thanks to yourself, and the numerous other people who replied... Changing the > netmask to 255.255.255.255 (0xffffffff) did indeed fix the problem... > > I'd not seen this mentioned anywhere - or if I did it must have been long > forgotten... > It's a bug in freebsd (not sure if it has been documented.. but it's just past on :).. every aliased ip after the first one has to have a netmask of 255.255.255.255 (or 0xffffffff)... mark -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.